Judkins application is withdrawn
The company applying to build a soil treatment plant in Nuneaton informed Warwickshire County Council yesterday that it is no longer seeking planning consent.
Despite Waste Recycling Group Ltd, the owners of the Judkins site in Nuneaton, saying that the land for the development of a soil treatment plant was no longer available, TCSR Ltd had said it was pressing ahead with the planning application.
This meant a Development Control Forum was scheduled to take place on Saturday as part of the application process.
However, following today’s announcement from TCSR, the application has now been withdrawn.
This means the forum will not be taking place on Saturday at Manor Park School.
Warwickshire County Council will now be working closely with the site’s owner WRG to try and ensure Judkins is developing with housing and new businesses, creating homes and jobs in the town.
Cllr Alan Farnell, the Leader of Warwickshire County Council, said: “As an authority we always had to give fair consideration to the application. It is clear though, both from the public opinion expressed, and from our own studies that a more ideal use for the land at Judkins would be homes and jobs. I’ve often wondered ‘why Nuneaton?’ for this application, and I’m now excited at the future possibilities for this site.
“I think today’s decision by TCSR is a sensible, saving the taxpayers money in not pursuing a planning application on land where the owner’s had withdrawn consent.
“The way is now clear for us to focus on what the future may have in store for this land at Judkins and hopefully the owners, working with ourselves and Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council, will now produce some exciting proposals.”
WRG Ltd withdrew from the deal with TCSR in November, stating that taking into regard the current economic climate, and the company’s exciting hopes for the future use of the site, that it would no longer be supporting the proposed development.
WRG also expressed concerns at the possible harm the development could have caused to its relationship with the local community - a relationship which it wants to be a long term one in view of its hopes for the wider future development of the site.